Power

Monthly Issue | August 15, 2006

Proposed PM2.5 regulation goes too far
Proposed PM2.5 regulation goes too far

By Quin Shea, Edison Electric Institute The U.S. electric power industry is committed to improving America's air quality. Progress over the past 25 years has been real and significant and…


Banana republic
Banana republic

  Learning theorists tell us that one of the key reasons we don't learn from our mistakes is that we don't or won't recognize them as such. We attribute good…


Global Monitor (July/August 2006)
Global Monitor (July/August 2006)

Russia's new nuclear navy According to the Russian nuclear agency RIA Novosti, the state-owned nuclear power monopoly Rosenergoatom and the Sevmash shipyard in the Arctic port of Severodvinsk have signed…


Currant Creek Power Plant, Mona, Utah
Currant Creek Power Plant, Mona, Utah

When Des Moines–based Mid-American completed the purchase of PacifiCorp from ScottishPower in late March of this year, one of its prizes was the new, natural gas–fired 525-MW Currant Creek Power…


Profiling your plant engineering staff
Profiling your plant engineering staff

The well-received coal-fired plant operator staffing benchmarking study published in POWER in September 2004 by the EUCG was recently joined by two additional studies: one of plant-level engineering and technical…


Kannagawa Hydropower Plant, Japan
Kannagawa Hydropower Plant, Japan

Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO)—the world's largest private power company—traces its roots to the illumination of a lecture hall by an electric arc lamp at Tokyo's Institute of Technology on…


Linden Generating Station, Linden, New Jersey
Linden Generating Station, Linden, New Jersey

In the late 1990s, Public Service Enterprise Group Inc. (PSEG, based in Newark, N.J.)—like just about every other U.S. investor-owned utility—was trying to determine where in the world electricity demand…


Readers Talk Back (August 2006)

Cape Wind's economics questioned The cited study concludes that the Cape Wind Project will "receive a 25% return on equity, 2.5 times the historical average for all corporations" when the…